Hot tub and pool stores 5 times more popular in Arizona than rest of US

Yelp and the Huffington Post collaborated on a nationwide project to learn which types of stores are the most disproportionately popular in each state.

No surprise: Hot tub and swimming pool shops are much more popular in sunny Arizona than in the rest of America — exactly 526 percent more popular, according to the report.

A different type of pool shop is the second-most disproportionately popular kind of store in AZ: Billiard stores are 283 percent more popular in the Grand Canyon State than the national average.

Based on its online catalog of store listings, Yelp calculated the percentage of a certain type of store relative to the total number of business listings in each state. It compared those percentages with each type of store’s representation nationwide to produce a top-10 list for all 50 states.